Ways To Teach… Momentum

Summary

Dr Dave Farmer joins the podcast to talk about ways to teach Momentum. Thank you for all your input dear listener!

Content

Dr Dave introduces momentum by putting his body on the line (see below). The main themes are increasing collision time to reduce force, momentum as the quantity of motion, colliding students together and doing experiments.

Links

• Physics Girl on Momentum (see below) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UHS883_P60
• Nicholas Alkamade falls from a WWI bomber and survives
• Gun recoils
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXOdO25K51M
• Robin and his cats:
  • https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1143/do-cats-always-land-unharmed-on-their-feet-no-matter-how-far-they-fall/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-rise_syndrome

Join in!

Please share ideas or successes – or indeed questions by messaging us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/physicstp.bsky.social .  You can also message us via our website contact form on every page of the web site at  the.physicsteachingpodcast.com, or email using the address given in the podcast (if we remember). We are moving away from X but can be found there as @physicstp.

Music

• Season 7: Physics Is Our Business by Miracles of Modern Science.
• Seasons 5 and 6: Crescents by Ketsa.
• Seasons 3 and 4: Disco Sheik by Podington Bear.
• Seasons 1 and 2: One legged equilibrist polka by Circus Homunculus.
• Occasionally we also use Cantina Rag by Jackson F. Smith.

The music is used under the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License